Tropescilloscope: Madness Mantra

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More Tropes After the End The Film of the Book Naked People Are Funny Once More, with Clarity! Laser-Guided Karma Death Seeker I Need a Freaking Drink Not Quite Dead Storming the Castle No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Rousing Speech I'm a Humanitarian Darker and Edgier In Name Only The Atoner Chase Scene Totally Radical Ass Shove He Knows Too Much The '80s Brainless Beauty Retcon The Vamp Tagline Knife Nut Flipping the Bird Psycho for Hire Crazy Jealous Guy Meaningful Background Event Combat Pragmatist No-Sell Only in It for the Money Alliterative Name The '90s In the Back Biopic Outrun the Fireball Adults Are Useless Red Eyes, Take Warning Adaptational Badass Card-Carrying Villain Shirtless Scene Toplessness from the Back Brick Joke Take That! Interrupted Suicide Nice Hat The Mafia The Dog Bites Back Demonic Possession BFG Genre Shift Taking the Bullet Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Silence Is Golden One Steve Limit Eyepatch of Power Redshirt Army As You Know Early Installment Weirdness Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Department of Redundancy Department Parental Substitute Hollywood Law No Celebrities Were Harmed Reality Has No Subtitles The Remake Aside Glance The Alleged Car One-Man Army Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Mystery and Detective Films Disguised in Drag Implacable Man Dogged Nice Guy Cain and Abel Badass Normal Our Vampires Are Different Your Head A-Splode Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Bar Brawl Parental Abandonment Those Wacky Nazis Hypocrite Ambiguous Disorder Shell-Shocked Veteran Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Trailers Always Spoil Ship Tease Damsel in Distress Adult Fear Break the Cutie The Faceless Race Lift Morality Pet Creator Cameo Malevolent Masked Men Zombie Stories Dual Wielding Fun with Acronyms Really Gets Around Japanese Films The Brute Hollywood Darkness Police are Useless Re-Cut Defiant to the End Attempted Rape Left the Background Music On Creepy Child British Films Award-Bait Song Belligerent Sexual Tension I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Drugs Are Bad Fan Disservice Based on a True Story In Medias Res The Stoner Blackmail Martial Arts Movie Artistic License – Law Groin Attack Daddy's Girl Worthy Opponent A Father to His Men Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Pretty in Mink Fourth Date Marriage Reality Ensues Narrator Too Dumb to Live Ghost Fiction Mighty Whitey Film Noir Index It Can Think Pay Evil unto Evil The Place Revenge Karmic Death Stealth Pun Hoist by His Own Petard Scenery Porn Evil vs. Evil The Cavalry Almost Kiss Nice Guy Beard of Evil Grey and Gray Morality Easily Forgiven Foreshadowing Deconstruction Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Bad Boss Only Known by Their Nickname Ambiguously Gay German Films Together in Death Black and Gray Morality Evil Laugh Precision F-Strike Broken Aesop Make It Look Like an Accident As the Good Book Says... Bloody Hilarious Thriller Slasher Movie Blatant Lies Up to Eleven Dirty Cop Determinator aka: The Determinator Kids Are Cruel The '70s The Power of Love Film Series Idiot Ball Smoking Is Cool The Reveal Laughing Mad Action Genre Beta Couple Super Strength Throwing Your Sword Always Works Due to the Dead Shout-Out Spiritual Successor Faking the Dead Unusually Uninteresting Sight Gilligan Cut Animal Motifs Big Brother Instinct World of Ham Historical In-Joke Bloodier and Gorier '80s Hair Wham Line Overprotective Dad Woman in White Anachronism Stew Red Shirt Comically Missing the Point Betty and Veronica Chekhov's Skill Bad "Bad Acting" Hate Sink Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Adaptation Distillation Mythology Gag Sassy Black Woman Get Out! Well-Intentioned Extremist Famous Last Words The Cameo Manipulative Bastard Tranquil Fury The Load Brutal Honesty The Ace Crapsack World Arc Words Disappeared Dad Index of Film Westerns Oh, Crap! Corpsing Beauty Is Never Tarnished Serial Killer Manic Pixie Dream Girl Made of Explodium Soft Glass Sealed Evil in a Can Artistic License – Geography The Un-Reveal Action Girl Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? No Name Given Double Entendre Anti-Hero Never Found the Body Danny Peary Cult Movies List Monumental Damage Fake Shemp Psychopathic Manchild Badass Bookworm Neck Snap Adaptational Heroism Happily Married Hooker with a Heart of Gold Extremely Short Timespan Male Frontal Nudity Credits Gag Deus ex Machina Affectionate Parody Lampshade Hanging Instant Death Bullet Big Fancy House Early-Bird Cameo Suddenly SHOUTING! Wounded Gazelle Gambit Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Those Two Guys Auto Erotica Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Unwitting Instigator of Doom Curb-Stomp Battle Adaptation Expansion She's Got Legs Star-Crossed Lovers Important Haircut Extreme Doormat Getting Crap Past the Radar The Oner Bunny-Ears Lawyer Honor Before Reason Title Drop Neck Lift "Awesome McCool" Name Actually Pretty Funny Kick the Son of a Bitch Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Needs Wiki Magic Love Stealth Hi/Bye Stepford Smiler Yandere May–December Romance A Date with Rosie Palms Fanservice Rated M for Manly Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Papa Wolf Ironic Echo Cool Old Guy "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Ungrateful Bastard Distracted by the Sexy Costume Porn Fatal Family Photo Mama Bear Took a Level in Jerkass Evil Plan Eiffel Tower Effect Country Matters Self-Deprecation Slashed Throat Continuity Nod Drill Sergeant Nasty Documentary Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Fat Bastard Death by Sex Evil-Detecting Dog Contrived Coincidence Names to Run Away from Really Fast Only a Flesh Wound Meet Cute The Starscream Accidental Misnaming Author Avatar Australian Movies It's All About Me Match Cut Posthumous Character Daylight Horror The Voiceless Protagonist Title Paper-Thin Disguise Face–Heel Turn Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" The Sociopath The End... Or Is It? Casting Gag Depraved Bisexual Insistent Terminology Bland-Name Product Femme Fatale Sadistic Choice timeperiod Cool Car Big "NO!" Jitter Cam Sports Stories Anguished Declaration of Love Henpecked Husband Alas, Poor Villain Cat Fight Maybe Ever After Romantic False Lead Back from the Dead Insult Backfire The Smart Guy My Greatest Failure Death Glare Market-Based Title Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Taking You with Me No OSHA Compliance Beware the Nice Ones Five-Man Band Hypocritical Humor O.O.C. Is Serious Business Gold Digger Cat Scare Rule of Funny Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Parental Incest Camera Abuse The Quiet One Call-Back Conspicuous CG Last-Name Basis Male Gaze Love at First Sight Rape as Drama Bloodless Carnage Roaring Rampage of Revenge Smug Snake Fatal Flaw Final Girl Lighter and Softer Every Car Is a Pinto Your Cheating Heart Age Lift Serious Business Pyrrhic Victory Hero Antagonist Would Hit a Girl Informed Ability Shut Up, Hannibal! Mistaken for Gay Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Cruel and Unusual Death Gorn The Chessmaster Black Comedy Heroic Sacrifice Reality Is Unrealistic Tempting Fate Not Using the "Z" Word Dark Action Girl Advertised Extra Chekhov's Gunman And Starring Undying Loyalty Video Credits Asshole Victim Red Right Hand Broken Pedestal My God, What Have I Done? Translation Convention Vampire Fiction I Did What I Had to Do Poor Communication Kills Downer Ending No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Peek-a-Boo Corpse Despair Event Horizon Spell My Name with an "S" Very Loosely Based on a True Story Disney Villain Death There Is No Kill Like Overkill Heel–Face Turn Badass Grandpa Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Better to Die than Be Killed Antagonist Title Obstructive Bureaucrat Big-Bad Ensemble Insane Troll Logic Off-into-the-Distance Ending Pre-Mortem One-Liner "Shaggy Dog" Story An Arm and a Leg Made of Iron Adaptation Dye-Job All for Nothing Fantastic Racism Imagine Spot Animated Credits Opening N-Word Privileges 20 Minutes into the Future Big Bad Jerk Jock Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Green-Eyed Monster Black Comedy Rape Didn't Think This Through Hong Kong Films Agony of the Feet Killed Mid-Sentence An Aesop Say My Name Cassandra Truth Not So Above It All Shipper on Deck Truth in Television Kick the Dog I Have Your Wife "The Reason You Suck" Speech Would Hurt a Child You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Take a Third Option Vitriolic Best Buds Car Fu Exactly What It Says on the Tin Eagleland Whole Plot Reference Big Eater Hell Is That Noise The Dragon No Ending Sequel Escalation As Long as It Sounds Foreign Logo Joke Unusual Euphemism Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The Chick Never Trust a Trailer Scary Black Man Scare Chord Batman Gambit Mexican Standoff Moment Killer B-Movie True Companions Pragmatic Adaptation Only Sane Man Kill It with Fire Does Not Like Shoes Captain Obvious Children Are Innocent Book-Ends Funny Background Event Red Herring Rewatch Bonus Composite Character Death of a Child Chiaroscuro Wretched Hive Character Development Calling the Old Man Out Dark Is Not Evil Mercy Kill Blood Knight Adaptational Villainy Television Movie Index Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Chekhov's Gun Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Vacation Films Cold-Blooded Torture The Mole Artistic License – Biology Corrupt Corporate Executive The '60s Dying Moment of Awesome Hair-Trigger Temper Authority Equals Asskicking Parental Neglect Handicapped Badass Let's Get Dangerous! Wrong Genre Savvy More Dakka Dissonant Serenity No Antagonist Training Montage Decoy Protagonist Adaptational Attractiveness La Résistance Shoot the Shaggy Dog Alpha Bitch Mooks Sir Swears-a-Lot Spanner in the Works Cluster F-Bomb Unreliable Narrator MacGuffin Badass Longcoat Artistic License – Military Drives Like Crazy Air-Vent Passageway The Stoic Bolivian Army Ending Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Amusing Injuries This Is Gonna Suck Evil Is Petty Dark and Troubled Past Suspiciously Specific Denial All There in the Manual Dull Surprise All Men Are Perverts Villain Ball folderlabel Big Damn Heroes Deliberately Monochrome Villain with Good Publicity One-Word Title The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Curse Cut Short Word of God Everyone Has Standards Blood from the Mouth Failed a Spot Check Disney Death An Axe to Grind Darkest Hour Facial Horror Black Best Friend Spared by the Adaptation Apocalypse How Break the Haughty Never My Fault Foil War Is Hell You Killed My Father Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Red Oni, Blue Oni Canon Foreigner Mugging the Monster As Himself Double-Meaning Title Even Evil Has Loved Ones Exact Words Novelization Four-Temperament Ensemble And I Must Scream Bury Your Gays Film Noir He Who Fights Monsters Christmas Movies Index Jerkass All Just a Dream Put on a Bus Dropped a Bridge on Him Cool Guns Armor-Piercing Question Empathic Environment Genre Savvy Not So Stoic Real Life Improbable Weapon User Tap on the Head Intergenerational Friendship Straight Gay Artistic License – Gun Safety My Beloved Smother Heroes Want Redheads Affably Evil The Great Depression Good Is Not Nice Dwindling Party Epic Movie Shown Their Work Heel Realization Our Zombies Are Different Ripped from the Headlines The X of Y Setting Update Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Russian Films Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Wham Shot Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Adorkable Face Death with Dignity Fate Worse than Death Fainting Stock Footage Cloudcuckoolander Mood Whiplash Dumb Blonde The Hero Dies Pretty Little Headshots Punch-Clock Villain Sinister Minister Intrepid Reporter Man on Fire Eye Scream Here We Go Again! Works Set in World War II Domestic Abuse Evil Sounds Deep "Well Done, Son!" Guy Visual Pun The Smurfette Principle Demoted to Extra Hero of Another Story Those Two Bad Guys Light Is Not Good Diabolus ex Machina Gory Discretion Shot Nothing Is Scarier Mind Screw Artistic License – Physics Did Not Get the Girl Not So Different Married to the Job Creative Closing Credits Foregone Conclusion Leaning on the Fourth Wall Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Ms. Fanservice Ambiguous Ending Dramedy Big Applesauce I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Reasonable Authority Figure Fingore Music Stories Central Theme Leave the Camera Running Bond Villain Stupidity Gender Flip Freeze-Frame Bonus Suspiciously Similar Substitute Military and Warfare Films Large Ham The Bad Guy Wins Soundtrack Dissonance Adaptation Name Change Rule of Cool Half the Man He Used to Be You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Hope Spot NO INDOOR VOICE What You Are in the Dark Pet the Dog Rich Bitch The Casanova Offscreen Teleportation Obviously Evil Spiteful Spit Slasher Smile Deliberate Values Dissonance Small Name, Big Ego Defrosting Ice Queen The Stinger Retirony Plot Hole Bring My Brown Pants Bond One-Liner All Girls Want Bad Boys Sanity Slippage Dramatic Gun Cock Running Gag Amoral Attorney Improbable Aiming Skills Bowdlerise The Alcoholic Pimped-Out Dress Dark Reprise Dramatic Irony Unspoken Plan Guarantee Superhero Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Fire-Forged Friends Silent Movie Recycled IN SPACE! Fanservice Extra Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Villain Song Punny Name Arch-Enemy Butt-Monkey Eureka Moment Awesome, but Impractical Have a Gay Old Time Riddle for the Ages Bait-and-Switch Jump Scare Cool Old Lady Kill 'em All Bilingual Bonus Horror Comedy Skewed Priorities Action Prologue Race Against the Clock Accidental Murder Mundane Made Awesome Berserk Button Body Horror Establishing Character Moment Evil Counterpart Manchild Real Life Writes the Plot Naïve Newcomer Gratuitous English Room Full of Crazy Dutch Angle Anti-Villain Heroic BSoD Crazy-Prepared Immune to Bullets Vomit Indiscretion Shot Big Bad Duumvirate Loophole Abuse Deal with the Devil Politically Incorrect Villain Camp Gay Annoying Younger Sibling Meaningful Name Product Placement Men Are the Expendable Gender Actor Allusion Wicked Cultured Humiliation Conga Guile Hero Only One Name Be Careful What You Wish For Historical Hero Upgrade Anyone Can Die Ascended Extra Flashback Not Even Bothering with the Accent Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Knight Templar Sexy Discretion Shot Abhorrent Admirer What Happened to the Mouse? Sacrificial Lion Mr. Fanservice Twist Ending Chewing the Scenery Developing Doomed Characters Animal Title Index Crucified Hero Shot Action Survivor Gone Horribly Right Redemption Equals Death She Cleans Up Nicely Vomit Discretion Shot Friend to All Children Cowboy Cop Drowning My Sorrows Offscreen Moment of Awesome From Nobody to Nightmare Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Fish out of Water Villain Protagonist Covers Always Lie Homage Romantic Comedy Babies Ever After The Bully Enemy Mine Same Language Dub Refuge in Audacity Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Bittersweet Ending Eldritch Abomination Coming-of-Age Story Show Within a Show Jerkass Has a Point All There in the Script Kubrick Stare Deadpan Snarker Properly Paranoid Death by Irony Italian Films Horror Films Older Than They Look Black Dude Dies First From Bad to Worse Random Events Plot Woman Scorned The Ghost Dirty Old Man Shower Scene Does This Remind You of Anything? Overly Long Gag Jerk with a Heart of Gold Abusive Parents Public Domain Feature Films Irony Badass Boast Evil Brit Improvised Weapon Playing Gertrude Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Closed Circle Fantasy Films Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Police Brutality Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Bound and Gagged The Ditz And the Adventure Continues Broken Bird How We Got Here Determinator Expository Hairstyle Change Bullying a Dragon Bottomless Magazines Stuff Blowing Up Loads and Loads of Characters Pragmatic Villainy Bi the Way Sequel Hook Breaking the Fourth Wall The Lost Lenore Becoming the Mask The '50s Call-Forward Expy Death by Adaptation The Musical Karma Houdini Faux Affably Evil Lock and Load Montage Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Rule of Three Time Skip Reckless Gun Usage Ax-Crazy Off with His Head! Manly Tears Slap-Slap-Kiss Bare Your Midriff Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Major Injury Underreaction Line-of-Sight Name Epic Fail Badass in a Nice Suit It's Personal Arranged Marriage Evil Is Hammy Bald of Evil Scenery Gorn Catch-Phrase Motor Mouth French Films Mr. Exposition Dressing as the Enemy Not What It Looks Like Rasputinian Death Artistic License – History Love Triangle Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Cool Shades Historical-Domain Character Disproportionate Retribution Captain Ersatz Guns Akimbo Madness Mantra Meaningful Echo Dirty Coward Obfuscating Stupidity Genre Throwback Even Evil Has Standards Took a Level in Badass Canadian Movies Frame-Up Author Appeal Villain Opening Scene Boom, Headshot! Unresolved Sexual Tension Driven to Suicide Funny Foreigner Sci-Fi Horror Humans Are Bastards The Lancer Retired Badass Gainax Ending The Big Guy A Minor Kidroduction Brother–Sister Incest Bavarian Fire Drill For the Evulz Non-Indicative Name Freudian Excuse Aluminum Christmas Trees Hidden Depths Science Fiction Films Catapult Nightmare It Will Never Catch On Anachronic Order Dies Wide Open Greater-Scope Villain Celebrity Paradox Leitmotif Fiery Redhead Token Minority Ominous Latin Chanting For Want of a Nail Villainous Breakdown Rule of Symbolism The Dreaded Missing Mom Adapted Out Victoria's Secret Compartment Earn Your Happy Ending Mad Scientist Plucky Comic Relief Noodle Incident Historical Villain Upgrade Stalker with a Crush Destination Defenestration Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Framing Device You Have Failed Me Psychological Thriller Sole Survivor Stylistic Suck A.I. Is a Crapshoot What the Hell, Hero? A God Am I The Hero Heterosexual Life-Partners Grievous Bottley Harm